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C'mon DCD you know you love their "organic" products and the sign so often saying they are out of the organic beef yet the price doesn't change. Embrace the organic lifestyle**
Antibiotic free and hormone free chicken and beef too!**
Their CEO is an effing nut job that loves being on his high horse about what he thinks is ethical food.
Their CEO is an effing nut job that loves being on his high horse about what he thinks is ethical food.
Probably just marketing.
Don't get me wrong, I love my home grown tomatoes and deer/turkey/dove/duck/quail/pheasant/rabbit/squirrel meat. Always have. It doesn't mean I don't destroy some pig and chicken too. I don't eat much beef admittedly.
Elaborate. I've always thought Chipotle was pretty good, but not in a healthy sort of way. Would be interested to see what a real farmer has to say about it. Isn't their whole deal that they use fresh ingredients? I didn't know they harped on organic as well. Organic to me is a bunch of ********. You probably know better than I.
Are you willing to tell us where you heard this? I LOVE Taco Del Mar and I fear for my lunch budget.
They are big on organic but also hormone free and antibiotic free meat. All three are total BS but people fall for it and pay more money because it's "better". They have gone as far as to make short films that I think are either on Hulu or NetFlix to scare the **** out of people.
People can eat what they want, I have no problem with it. I just get tired of people freaking out over things that aren't going to matter at all for their health and paying extra for it.
Hormone free meat is incredibly silly. First of all, meat contains naturally occurring hormones anyway but some steers are administered hormones in the growth stage. The difference between the two in negligible and it looks even more silly when you compare it to other foods that contain estrogen.
ng is nano grams which is one billionth of a gram. That's right billion with a B.
The following are some such comparisons:
* 4 ounces of beef from steer given hormones: 1.6 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from untreated steer: 1.2 ng of estrogen (.4 nano grams difference)
* 4 ounces of beef from non-pregnant heifer: 1.5 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw cabbage: 2,700 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw peas: 454 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of soybean oil: 168,000 ng of estrogen
* 3.5 ounces of soy protein concentrate: 102,000 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from cow given recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST): 11 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from non-rbST-treated cow: 11 ng of estrogen
* Average level in a woman of childbearing age: 480,000 ng of estrogen per day
* Average level in a pre-pubertal girl: 54,000 ng of estrogen per day
* Average soy latte (one cup of soy milk): 30,000 ng of estrogen
i will just say on the organic front that organic is not pesticide free. This is the biggest misconception I think there is.
People can eat what they want, I have no problem with it. I just get tired of people freaking out over things that aren't going to matter at all for their health and paying extra for it.
Hormone free meat is incredibly silly. First of all, meat contains naturally occurring hormones anyway but some steers are administered hormones in the growth stage. The difference between the two in negligible and it looks even more silly when you compare it to other foods that contain estrogen.
ng is nano grams which is one billionth of a gram. That's right billion with a B.
The following are some such comparisons:
* 4 ounces of beef from steer given hormones: 1.6 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from untreated steer: 1.2 ng of estrogen (.4 nano grams difference)
* 4 ounces of beef from non-pregnant heifer: 1.5 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw cabbage: 2,700 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw peas: 454 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of soybean oil: 168,000 ng of estrogen
* 3.5 ounces of soy protein concentrate: 102,000 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from cow given recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST): 11 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from non-rbST-treated cow: 11 ng of estrogen
* Average level in a woman of childbearing age: 480,000 ng of estrogen per day
* Average level in a pre-pubertal girl: 54,000 ng of estrogen per day
* Average soy latte (one cup of soy milk): 30,000 ng of estrogen
i will just say on the organic front that organic is not pesticide free. This is the biggest misconception I think there is.
Thanks. Those are some pretty telling numbers. So in essence organic and hormone-free are nothing more than advertising agents. A certification that people pay for, which can be skirted in numerous ways.
I've always said if the general public would spend half as much time educating themselves on sugar and its effect on the body, as they do trying to demonize the meat industry, obesity would 90% disappear.
I've always said if the general public would spend half as much time educating themselves on sugar and its effect on the body, as they do trying to demonize the meat industry, obesity would 90% disappear.
Its the new marketing but it's not that they are skirting, it's just a misunderstanding of what organic actually is. Organic farmers use pesticides, they are simply organic pesticides. Some of which are more toxic than synthetics but that gets lost in the shuffle.
It's like when people tell me they are against GMOs and then you ask them what GMOs are and they have no clue. How can you be against something when you don't even know what it is?
It's like when people tell me they are against GMOs and then you ask them what GMOs are and they have no clue. How can you be against something when you don't even know what it is?
We've GM'ed food since we learned we could grow instead of forage...
We're just better and more scientific about it. Even animals. Every pet dog you have came from a wolf. We hunted cows 12,000 years ago. Or whatever cows were back then before we domesticated them, planned their diet, and genetically modified them through selective breeding.
We're just better and more scientific about it. Even animals. Every pet dog you have came from a wolf. We hunted cows 12,000 years ago. Or whatever cows were back then before we domesticated them, planned their diet, and genetically modified them through selective breeding.
This for sure. a buddy on social media took a little straw poll to the effect of "what is the liberal version of creationism or climate change" and the response was overwhelmingly GMO ********
That makes no sense whatsoever.
Although it does irritate me that people who trust the science of evolution and climate change (extensively studied, reviewed, and accepted), tend to ignore it on things such as GMOs and even vaccinations (also extensively studied, reviewed, and accepted).
Although it does irritate me that people who trust the science of evolution and climate change (extensively studied, reviewed, and accepted), tend to ignore it on things such as GMOs and even vaccinations (also extensively studied, reviewed, and accepted).
It's actually across all spectrums on GMOs. You have people from one extreme to the other that don't accept them. From liberals to conservatives it doesn't really matter.
The companies that "certify" a product as organic/hormone free don't get paid if product X doesn't get certified. Whatever, consumer pays more but sleeps better.
